X Factor bosses under fire for featuring posh hotel too much on show

Media regulator Ofcom ruled the series was in breach of their code and gave producers a slap on the wrist

Someone had just broken the news that he had to pay his own mini bar bill

When The X Factor contestants and show staff found out they’d be chilling at out London’s mega-posh Corinthia hotel during last year’s series, there’s likely to have been a few deafening squeals of excitement.

But TV bosses may now be looking sheepish after they were told to park their pinch-able bottoms on the naughty step for featuring the plush property too many times on the show.

Singing extraordinaire James Arthur and his Deirdre Barlow glasses were seen checking into the super swish hotel before the live shows last year, with fellow former contestant and Celebrity Big Brother legend Rylan Clark exclaiming: “There’s a phone in the toilet!”

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"This is a song about a really posh hotel"

And while the wannabe pop stars almost exploded at the thought of staying at the £3,000-per-night hotel which overlooks the River Thames, media regulator Ofcom had their watchful eye on the programme.

Producers accepted no payment for featuring the hotel on the programme as part of a product placement deal but discounted nightly room rates were agreed, apparently a big mistake.

Telly execs argued that they were simply telling the story of how the contestants were moving into their new surroundings as they rose to fame as reality stars.

But the beady-eyed Ofcom execs were having none of it and said they were particularly concerned by three of the eight times the hotel appeared, in one of which a manic Rylan, who was later thrown out of the accommodation for bad behaviour, screeched: “It's absolutely amazing here ... I've never really seen anything like it to be honest. It's a million miles away from the place I live back home ... Oh my god James, it's massive!”

Before your filthy minds go into overdrive, Rylan was talking about the HOTEL ROOM.

These trainers have walked the floors of one VERY POSH hotel room

And while it was all very exciting to watch, the boring part is that The X Factor broke part of Ofcom’s complicated and rather baffling code.

The regulator concluded: “Each reference to the Corinthia hotel did not raise issues of undue prominence, in the context of establishing where the contestants would be living during the final stages of the competition, and conveying their excitement at their new surroundings.

"However, Ofcom considered the overall number of references to be excessive for the purpose of establishing this.”

This is serious and everything, but all we can think is that the bath must have been SO POSH.